Anne Enright is an Irish novelist, short-story writer and essayist, born in Dublin in 1962. Her work has an important place in contemporary Irish fiction, and her books range across novels, stories and nonfiction. She has written about domestic and family life, memory, desire, motherhood, loss and the pressures within intimate relationships.
Her early fiction includes The Portable Virgin and the novel What Are You Like?, which received the Encore Award in 2001. Her short-fiction volume Yesterday's Weather brings together stories in a single collection. In 2007, The Gathering, a novel centred on siblings assembling after their brother’s death, won the Booker Prize. Later novels include The Green Road and The Wren, the Wren.
Enright was the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction from 2015 to 2018, a role established by Ireland’s Arts Council to recognise an accomplished Irish writer and promote fiction. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2010. University College Dublin appointed her Ireland’s first Professor of Fiction in 2018, and she remains involved with its creative-writing programmes. In 2025 she was named a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction.
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